Celebrate Black History Month

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  1. 3. The first Black president of the United States
  2. 7. American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement
  3. 8. The first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908
  4. 12. Intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship
  5. 13. The first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
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  1. 1. Credited with helping to spark the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her public bus seat in 1955— Inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  2. 2. Became the first female African American astronaut to travel to space in 1992
  3. 4. The first African American to play Major League Baseball joining the Brooklyn Dodgers
  4. 5. Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives in the state of ________________
  5. 6. The first woman of African or Asian descent to become vice president
  6. 9. Referred to as the "Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"
  7. 10. Civil rights organization in the US, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
  8. 11. Escaped to freedom in 1849 and then risked her life to lead other enslaved people to freedom
  9. 14. Famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance